Catholic Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin has said survivors of sexual abuse had complained to him that some unnamed religious congregations have been obstructing the settlement of law suits against them.

The jury in the Tipperary murder trial has heard that a pathologist was not willing to attend the scene of the discovery of Bobby Ryan's remains before they were removed from an underground tank on a farm.

A rocket has taken off from Cape Canaveral in Florida carrying Israel's Beresheet spacecraft, aiming to make history twice - as the first private-sector landing on the Moon, and the first from the Jewish state.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said he would shut the country's border with Brazil today "until further notice", amid a tense standoff with opposition leader Juan Guaido over allowing in humanitarian aid.